Machines Collection (page 15)

Gibraltar Mill, Essex
Winter snow at Gibraltar Mill, Great Bardfield, Essex, England. Built as a smock mill c. 1704-5 (during the Siege of Gibraltar), then raised as a tower mill in the 1750s. Date: 18th century

Windmill in France 18Th
A windmill in 18th century France. A couple and their dog are having a rest before heading home with their flour bags. Date: Circa 1760

Windmill in 18th C
A windmill in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Italian Munitions Factory - Naples
Finishing Shop for an Italian Munitions Factory - Naples, Italy. Date: circa 1915

The Leas Lifts, Folkestone, Kent. The Folkestone cliff lift is a water balanced funicular opened in 1885. This proved so popular three further lifts were added. circa 1910s

Bather afraid to take a dip - Comic postcard
Comic Postcard from the Racing Illustrated series - " A poor display of Form" - this bather is certainly refusing the first jump!!! Date: 1903

Engraving designs on glass
Engraving initials onto glass goblets using an engraving machine. Date: circa 19th century

Roberts and Coppocks Improvement in Looms for Weaving
Technical drawing of an invention, patented in 1855, by Roberts and Coppock, consisting of an improved arrangement of parts for letting the yarn off the warp beam in a weaving loom

Perrys Improved Printing Machine
Technical drawing showing an invention of Mr T. J Perry of the Lozells, Birmingham and comprises a method of constructing the moveable types used in cylinder printing

Steam Whipping Engine by J. Scott Russell and Co
Technical drawing depicting a patent Steam Whipping Machine constructed by Messrs. J. Scott Russell and Co. of Millwall and used to load and discharge cargo on screw collier ships. Date: 1856

Sewing Machine Truck
A truck constructed specially to carry sewing machines, one of hundreds of varieties of trucks and trolleys available in Slingsbys Patent Trucks List. 1910

Farningham Little Boys Home, Tailors Shop
Boys equipped with needles, sewing machines, and a flat iron, learn tailoring at the Home for Little Boys at Farningham in Kent

Baby Incubators - Crystal Palace - Child Life Section Date: circa 1908

Making Handbags
Men and women working together in a factory, making handbags with sewing machines. Date: early 1930s

Guns Factory 18th C
Machines to make 18th century guns. Date: Circa 1760

Stonecutter Windmill
a stonecutter windmill from 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Newcomens Steam Engine
The original model of Newcomens steam engine

Siemens Electric Lift
An electro-magnetic lift exhibited at Mannheim, designed by Siemens and Halske. The back rail is a set of teeth to prevent a sudden fall. Date: 19 February 1881

Howes Sewing Machine
Elias Howes sewing machine was the first to employ the lock-stitch Date: 1845

Sewing with Machines
Clothes produced on sewing machines. Date: 1863

Water-Driven Flour Mill
Cross-section of a water- driven flour mill Date: 19th century

An Air Pump
An air pump Date: 1882

American Bicycle
American bicycles are fitted with all kinds of gadgetry compared with European machines. Date: 1939

Stone Drill 18th Century
Various elements (including gears) of a stone drill from 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Watermill in 18th C
The interior of a water mill in 18th century France. Date: Circa 1760

Vaudeville Theatre, New York
Building, Automatic Vaudeville & interiors (48 East 14th Street). Interior of the Automatic Vaudeville theatre, 48 East 14th Street, N.Y.C. showing amusements

Printers
American Type Founders Co. Printing machines and presses

Female wool weaving operators, Yorkshire
Female wool weaving operators tend their machines at a Yorkshire factory

Applegath vertical printing press
The Illustrated London News being printed at the Great Exhibition on the patented Applegath (often mis-spelled Applegarth) vertical printing-press

Women sewing in a factory
Women sit at work at a long bank of sewing machines in what appears to be a clothing factory or workshop

Census tabulation in former Lambeth workhouse
Data from the 1931 census being transferred to punched cards in the former Lambeth workhouse - presumably the one on Princes Road (now Black Prince Road), Lambeth, south London

The Bathing Hour at Boulogne-sur-mer, France. A group of intrepid lady swimmers strike out from the coast amid the attractive bathing machines, parked both in the shallows and on the beach

Industrial furnaces
Workmen in front of two Meldrum Brothers patent furnaces, manufactured in Manchester. The furnaces may be " destructors", for the purpose of burning town refuse

Binding Machines in Operation
Binding machines in operation at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Automatic Feeders in the Binder supply sections to the endless chain of a wire-stitching machine. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

A small Letterpress Machine in operation at the Lund Humphries Printing Works. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Winding thread - Patons & Baldwins
Machines for Winding thread at Patons & Baldwins Factory in Darlington; one of the UKs leading manufacturers of knitting yarn. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

WW2 - Aircraft manufacture in Australia
The Australian aircraft manufacture industry during World War Two. It took the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation 16 months to produce its first 100 Wirraway machines

Banks of Winding machines for acrylic yarn
A seemingly never-ending bank of winding machines for acrylic yarns at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington. Patons & Baldwins was a leading British manufacturer of knitting yarn

Manufacturing Wool Yarn
The Worlds largest (at the time) single line of worsted carding machines for opening scoured raw wool prior to combing at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Jules Vedrines, second in Great Air Race
Jules Charles Toussaint Vedrines (1881-1919), French aviator who came a close second in the Great Air Race, also known as the Round Britain Air Race, covering 1000 miles in five days (22-26 July)

Regular Fireman - Constantinople, Turkey
Regular fireman in constantinople drill at their compound, practising scaling the side of a dummy building with long ladders and hosing down a fire

Industrial metalworking
A factory worker uses a piece of precision shaping machinery to cut and level a thick metal block. Photograph by Heinz Zinram

Sewing Class, Darenth Training Colony, Kent
Sewing class at the Darenth Training Colony near Dartford in Kent. The colony, for adult mental defectives, was set up by the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1904 as an addition to the existing Darenth

Bathers at Boulogne-sur-Mer
Bathers and their bathing machines in the shallow waters at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

Seaside scene - Turn of the Century
A seaside/holiday scene from the turn of the 19th/20th century. Children play in the sand and in the surf while elegantly dressed parents promenade

Cloth production - Factory Workers
Women factory workers manning a sheet-weaving machine at Patons & Baldwins Factory in Darlington. The company, principally produced knitting wool

Captured Focke-Wulf 190, Britain; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a captured German Focke-Wulf 190 fighter-bomber aeroplane, painted in Royal Air Force markings, 1944. During the Second World War

Captured Messerschmitt 109G, Britain; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a captured German Messerschmitt 109G fighter aeroplane, painted in Royal Air Force markings, 1944. During the Second World War

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